Where does Vagrant download its box files to

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What happens to the  box file after the following command is executed   vagrant box add lucid32 http   files vagrantup com lucid32 box   I can t find the lucid32 box file on the file system after download has completed

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On Windows 10 with Vagrant 2 2 2  setting the environment variable VAGRANT HOME will ensure that boxes are downloaded to a subfolder of the folder specified for VAGRANT HOME   In my case I set VAGRANT HOME to e  vagrant home  and the boxes get stored under e  vagrant home boxes   This works for me   That s where the boxes are stored  The virtual machines are being created in the folder configured in Virtual Box  To set the VirtualBox VM storage folder  go to  VirtualBox GUI -- gt  File -- gt  Preferences -- gt  General -- gt  Default Machine Folder

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The actual  box file is deleted by Vagrant once the download and box installation is complete   As mentioned in other answers  whilst downloading  the  box file is stored as      vagrant d tmp boxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX   where the file name is  box  followed by a 40 byte hexadecimal hash  A temporary file on my system for example  is      vagrant d tmp boxc74a85fe4af3197a744851517c6af4d4959db77f   As far as I can tell  this file is never saved with a   box extension  which explains why the searches above failed to locate it   There are two ways to retrieve the actual box file    Download the  box file from vagrantcloud com   Find the box you re interested in on the atlas   For example   https   atlas hashicorp com ubuntu boxes trusty64 versions 20150530 0 1 Replace the domain name with vagrantcloud com   So https   atlas hashicorp com ubuntu boxes trusty64 versions 20150530 0 1 becomes https   vagrantcloud com ubuntu boxes trusty64 versions 20150530 0 1 providers virtualbox box  Add  providers virtualbox box to the end of that URL   So  https   vagrantcloud com ubuntu boxes trusty64 versions 20150530 0 1 becomes https   vagrantcloud com ubuntu boxes trusty64 versions 20150530 0 1 providers virtualbox box Save the  box file Use the  box as you wish  for example  hosting it yourself and pointing config vm box url to the URL  OR  Get the  box directly from Vagrant  This requires you to modify the ruby source to prevent Vagrant from deleting the box after successful download    Locate the box add rb file in your Vagrant installation directory   On my system it s located at  Applications Vagrant embedded gems gems vagrant-1 5 2 lib vagrant action builtin box add rb Find the box add function   Within the box add function  there is a block that reads      ensure       Make sure we delete the temporary file after we add it        unless we were interrupted  in which case we keep it around       so we can resume the download later      if   download interrupted        logger debug  Deleting temporary box    box url          begin         box url delete if box url       rescue Errno  ENOENT           Not a big deal  the temp file may not actually exist       end     end  Comment this block out  Add another box using vagrant add box  lt boxname gt   Wait for it to download  You can watch it save in the    vagrant d tmp  directory as a boxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX file   Rename the the file to something more useful  Eg  mv boxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX trusty64 box     Why would you want this   For me  this has been useful to retrieve the  box file so it can be hosted on local  fast infrastructure as opposed to downloading from HashiCorp s Atlas box catalog or another box provider   This really should be part of the default Vagrant functionality as it has a very definitive use case

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As mentioned in the docs  boxes are stored at     Mac OS X and Linux     vagrant d boxes Windows  C  Users USERNAME  vagrant d boxes

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To change the Path  you can set a new Path to an Enviroment-Variable named   VAGRANT HOME  export VAGRANT HOME my new path goes here    Thats maybe nice if you want to have those vagrant-Images on another HDD   More Information here in the Documentations  http   docs vagrantup com v2 other environmental-variables html

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In addition to  Mac     vagrant d   Windows  C  Users  userprofile   vagrant d boxes   You have to delete the files in VirtualBox OtherVMprovider to make a clean start

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On Windows  the location can be found here  I didn t find any documentation on the internet for this  and this wasn t immediately obvious to me   C  Users   username    vagrant d boxes

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On Mac Linux System  the successfully downloaded boxes are located at      vagrant d boxes   and unsuccessful boxes are located at      vagrant d tmp   On Windows systems it is located under the Users folder   C  Users  userprofile   vagrant d boxes   Hope this will help  Thanks

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Luke Peterson  There s a simpler way to get  box file   Just go to https   atlas hashicorp com boxes search  search for the box you d like to download  Notice the URL of the box  e g   https   atlas hashicorp com ubuntu boxes trusty64 versions 20150530 0 1  Then you can download this box using URL like this   https   vagrantcloud com ubuntu boxes trusty64 versions 20150530 0 1 providers virtualbox box  I tried and successfully download all the boxes I need  Hope that help

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